DINOSAURS RETURN

It’s been three years since theme park and luxury resort Jurassic World was destroyed by dinosaurs out of containment. Isla Nublar now sits abandoned by humans while the surviving dinosaurs fend for themselves in the jungles.

2015’s Jurassic World was a huge smash success, bringing the Jurassic Park franchise roaring back to life. Now here comes Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, the much-anticipated sequel, directed by Juan Antonio Bayona. A lifelong fan of the Jurassic Park films, he talks about his time on set, and the new dinosaurs.

Did you use inspiration from other movies while planning shots?

Preparing for Fallen Kingdom, I watched all the Jurassic movies again as well as read Michael Crichton’s novels. I took a look back and tried to understand where I was. There are films that I see again and again looking for inspiration.

You use music to set the tone on sets. Is that something you’ve carried over from previous work?

Music is very helpful for me. I normally am a very emotional director, and sometimes the best way to articulate what I need is through music. I’m looking for emotions, and I know immediately what I’m looking for when I hear a melody. Normally when I’m preparing a movie, I’m thinking about the music in advance, and when I’m shooting a scene, I know

How do you balance honouring what has come before with tweaking it to your needs?

From the moment I knew I was going to do a Jurassic movie, I started to read about it. I realised how important it is for the kids’ fascination for dinosaurs. And most of that fascination comes from the textures and colours of the dinosaurs. We took the original dinosaurs and we gave them a little bit more colour, and we worked the textures, because I realised how much kids love that.

Do you have one dinosaur that you’re proud to be bringing to the screen?

I think there’s one dinosaur that, once you’ve seen the movie, you will know what it is! All the Jurassic movies are remembered